Top Restaurant POS Trends

You’d think that fragmented, piecemeal point of sale systems, like bulky countertop terminals and handwritten receipts, would have been done away with by now, especially in a day and age where POS advancements have never been more sophisticated, mobile or affordable.

Sixty-three percent of restaurants don’t have a restaurant POS system in place.

In our discussion with POS software specialist Justin Guinn from Software Advice, we learned that 63 percent of restaurants don’t have a restaurant POS system in place.

When we asked Guinn why restaurateurs have waited until now to revisit their most critical business process, he said that many restaurateurs have reached a point of comfortable disorganization – a business state that runs by a “‘if it’s not broke, don’t fix it’” mentality.  But, then he asked, “What does that say if those processes are currently breaking?”

The old standard of jotting down orders, plugging those scribbles into a computer, penning…